Where investment banking meets agribusiness

Finding the way forward

After thoroughly analyzing what is likely to lie ahead for your business, our goal is to work with you to illuminate your best path, lead you on its twists and turns, and get you where you want to be efficiently and creatively.

Providing Private Investment Banking Services Exclusively to Agribusiness Companies for Over 30 Years

Our deep collective knowledge of all aspects of agribusiness — our market intelligence — reduces the time we need to understand a client’s business, markets, and value, enabling us to meet client needs in the shortest possible time frame. Our clients include operating companies across the food chain, as well as private equity and other firms desiring to acquire agribusinesses. We bridge investment banking and agribusiness with extensive global experience to help our clients meet the growing challenges of a rapidly changing world market.

Creativity, Integrity, Results

Versatile

We were hired by a multinational, Japanese trading company to sell a financially distressed and non-core business. We were able to work through numerous, complex, working capital, legal and antitrust issues and find a suitable buyer.

Independent

A NASDAQ-listed company required a fairness opinion in conjunction with a stock-for-stock merger transaction. We analyzed the business, undertook a valuation, and provided independent, expert confirmation that the agreed-upon price was reasonable to the seller.

Adept

An agricultural equipment company was experiencing financial problems and lost the support of its bank. We were able to find a new lender and new mezzanine capital to restructure it financially. The company was then able to buy a competitor to enlarge its business to a more economically viable size, and we assisted in that purchase.

Analytical

A major European pharmaceutical company wanted to sell a non-strategic pesticide and plastics- related business. We studied the business, conducted a thorough analysis and assisted in its sale to a publicly traded, U.S.-based company.

Inspired

A large Midwestern cooperative was looking for ways to market grain from a new unit-train loading facility. An existing client, a major global grain-trading company was seeking to originate grain to fill a northwestern grain export facility. We introduced the parties, and they entered into a mutually beneficial marketing agreement for global distribution of grain.

Thorough

After a normal investment period, we were hired by a private equity firm to help it exit its investment in a navigation and control systems company. We conducted a competitive auction process focused on the logical navigation and technology companies, and the business was eventually sold to a Canadian company.

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Customized solutions

AgriCapital is an investment bank that works exclusively in agribusiness. We advise on mergers and acquisitions, arrange financings, and provide consulting services. Since our inception in 1983 we have been involved in over 550 assignments on behalf of some 450 clients covering the spectrum of agribusiness. Our client base is global.